Kingdom of Denmark
Henrik Fischer
The Denmark territories of Greenland and the Faroe Islands have a long history of whaling and continue the practice on a small scale. The nation joined the International Whaling Commission in 1950. Henrik Fischer is the chair of the IWC. He was appointed on April 24, 1986. The following is excerpted from Denmark’s opening statement at the Berlin meeting of the IWC on June 16, 2003.The Kingdom of Denmark, as a founding member of the IWC, takes seriously its commitment as a contracting party to the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and has been working in good…
